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Cox Automotive is looking for a Director of Solution Delivery to take ownership of delivery outcomes for an executive-level product and engineering team, focusing on shaping and delivering investments to solve high-level organizational problems and drive the organization to a high-performing state.

Requirements

• 5+ yrs. of direct experience successfully driving systemic continuous improvement with software development teams using Scrum or Kanban
• Mastery of the SDLC, demonstrated by expertise on the various phases of work associated with software development
• Mastery of the Agile framework, demonstrated by expertise on how to achieve the positive outcomes associated with Agile
• Mastery of industry standard information radiators (preferably Rally; but experience with JIRA, TFS or another standard radiator will be considered)
• Experience working in a scaled agile environment
• Advanced skills writing queries and ability to interpret data (strong Excel or Tableau skills are a plus)
• 5+ years of experience leading product delivery teams, or equivalent program and project management experience on large complex technical projects/programs

Responsibilities

• Drive governance that ensures roadmap alignment, prioritization and trade-offs with business partners.
• Establish and maintain operations that support a continuous planning and rolling forecast cycle, with the goal of balancing delivery flexibility with sustainable predictability through first class risk management and other best in class agile program management practices
• Facilitate the creation and delivery of investments by the delivery stream.
• Maintain impeccable investment (and included capability) hygiene and ensure that all radiated information is reliable, meaningful, and readable.
• Drive consistent used of metrics to assess risks to delivery and drive prioritization and decision making
• Assess, own and communicate risks and dependencies across delivery streams and portfolios; remove impediments as needed to get work across the finish line.
• Identify and implement solutions to issues that address true root cause of issues or clearly articulate trade off when only symptoms will be addressed.

Other

• This is an Agile enablement and leadership role—not an engineering management, product management or technical delivery role.
• Coach VP, AVP, and Director-level team members to collaboratively communicate, identify true root cause of issues, and use business priorities to drive organizational focus.
• Staff the release train engineer and scrum master roles with team members who possess the characteristics, skills, and knowledge to own outcomes at the release train and scrum team levels.
• Manage release train engineer and scrum master performance which aligns with the Solution Delivery organization's vision and annual objectives; ensure release train engineers and scrum masters know what outcomes are expected of them and have a current sense of how they are performing against those expectations.
• Must be comfortable with up to 25% travel